Meaning

• A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.

• (collective) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.

• Material used as bedding for animals.

  "sleep in the litter"

• Collectively, items discarded on the ground.

  "drop litter"

• Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray

  "the cat's litter"

• Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.

• A covering of straw for plants.

Meaning

• To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

  "By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering."

• To scatter carelessly about.

• To strew (a place) with scattered articles.

• To give birth to, used of animals.

• To produce a litter of young.

• To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

• To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.